{"id":61140,"date":"2026-07-26T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=61140"},"modified":"2026-07-26T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:22:38","slug":"the-masochism-tango-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=61140","title":{"rendered":"The Masochism Tango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A live version of a classic novelty tune by the late, great Tom Lehrer.<br>He was way ahead of his time, the majority of his work came out in<br>the 1950&#8217;s, and all was quite interesting.<br>Take the subject matter of this song for instance, most people hadn&#8217;t<br>even heard of masochism, and yet Tom was on it!<br>He really shows his zeal in this performance&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Tom Lehrer - The Masochism Tango - with intro\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VR3VpvkAd0E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A live version of a classic novelty tune by the late, great Tom Lehrer.He was way ahead of his time, the majority of his work came out inthe 1950&#8217;s, and all was quite interesting.Take the subject matter of this song for instance, most people hadn&#8217;teven heard of masochism, and yet Tom was on it!He really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61141,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61140\/revisions\/61141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}